“They left Karabakh”
Vice-Chairman of "Heritage" Party Ruben Hakobyan doesn't have any expectations from the visits of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Armenia and Azerbaijan and says the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not be resolved in 2011. He is rest assured that the Armenian authorities are trying to maintain the status-quo and Azerbaijan is taking advantage of that and rearming.
The Vice-Chairman of "Heritage" Party believes Armenia's current objective is resettlement in terms of the Karabakh conflict. "Armenia must use the status-quo to resettle Karabakh. In 1992, all three Armenian presidents were taking part in the closed session of the RA Supreme Council and were discussing the issue of having 300-500,000 residents in Nagorno-Karabakh, but that wasn't the case."
According to Ruben Hakobyan, the Armenian authorities didn't treat the resettlement issue seriously and there was no clear plan.
Hakobyan says Armenians starting moving from the NKR when the president-elect of the NKR Robert Kocharyan was appointed RA Prime Minister. "A large wave of emigration began from the NKR to Armenia and abroad. The resettlement of the NKR must start with those who don't hold office, but have been the President of the NKR, NA Chairmen, ministers and have held other high offices."
Ruben Hakobyan says the failure of the draft law on Armenia's recognition of the NKR's independence at the National Assembly on the part of the majority is illogical. "I think we have to wait until the majority matures and understands that it is necessary to adopt such a draft law.
According to Ruben Hakobyan, in 2011 there will be special challenges and the inter-political situation will become active due to elections in 2012. The Vice-Chairman of "Heritage" Party said it was too early to say how the party will take part in the 2012 parliamentary elections. He doesn't know whether "Heritage" will be in parliament in 2012 or not, but believes the party has the resources. "Even the HHK (Republican Party of Armenia) can't say whether it will be in parliament or not."
Mr. Hakobyan doesn't exclude that the upcoming state elections will be special. "Any force-majeur situation may lead to special elections and those situations are not due to inter-political issues. Foreign impulses, particularly progress in the Karabakh conflict resolution cannot satisfy one of the sides and create a new situation which will lead to special elections."
